Grin
Gnosis
Deformeathing Production
New album of Grin is so much different than other bands that are active on Polish scene. This record is a progressive death metal, just more often concentrated on climax of the music than on extremity. The album in general has much more heavy tracks on it than fast ones. It`s good, it opens a portal for Grin that let them making industrial and little futuristic atmospherics for their songs. Music is very strong on the ground of guitar offerings. They either play complex songs, some tracks have cool guitar break-downs, and some are with nicely dis-harmonized rhythms while others just sound simple. What`s important for me, I have no disrupting feeling that something has been over-thought in process of making this album which sometimes could be dangerous for bands and their music stability when they deal outside of what is considered to be a normal music approach (it`s when more people do or willing to understand the actual music). I have no trouble to enjoy tunes from this record at all because the album has friendly, decent sound to ear, and songs, even if not the easiest to catch up with at once, have something hypnotic in a way they explore and fulfill music spaces - strangely but originally. It`s caused by little mechanized, robotic guitar work that Grin is capable to structure in music.
I am glad that singer sings with polluted clean vocals than he would do in death metal style. This way, this album is more approachable. My only wish is that some vocals were done more energetic - in aggressive tracks and had better lyrics that matching the core of the music, into more sci-fi themes (it`s always better than topics about existential bullshit or about troubles of mind). All I`m saying is that Grin must have better vocals for their songs! This is why the music is definitely on the first place here for me and the key word for it is; RIFFS. Gnosis consists of 3 instrumental tracks and those tracks actually sound killer (1,4,8), among my other favorites like: Eyes Of The Creators, Turn Of My Brain, Universal Antidote...
I have no problem to adapt Grin`s album to collection of my weird records and bands. In my opinion, they sometimes play simplified version of Meshuggah and Fear Factory - kind of (for example track Need To Be A Human). Just do not get it wrong, everybody has music inspirations and that`s always OK. I even think that Grin has already their original vision for writing interesting songs. They construct this style by giving it a solid instrumental ideas that they explore on and on in music by providing to it some more or less hostile/invasive music experimentation that turned up to be really good for Gnosis.
Tracklist:
1 Prologue
2 Universal Antidote
3 Eyes Of The Creators
4 Gnosis
5 Rust On My Fingers
6 Burnt By Life
7 Need To Be A Human
8 Simon Magus
9 Turn Of My Brain
10 Mental Hole
11 Even For A Moment
I am glad that singer sings with polluted clean vocals than he would do in death metal style. This way, this album is more approachable. My only wish is that some vocals were done more energetic - in aggressive tracks and had better lyrics that matching the core of the music, into more sci-fi themes (it`s always better than topics about existential bullshit or about troubles of mind). All I`m saying is that Grin must have better vocals for their songs! This is why the music is definitely on the first place here for me and the key word for it is; RIFFS. Gnosis consists of 3 instrumental tracks and those tracks actually sound killer (1,4,8), among my other favorites like: Eyes Of The Creators, Turn Of My Brain, Universal Antidote...
I have no problem to adapt Grin`s album to collection of my weird records and bands. In my opinion, they sometimes play simplified version of Meshuggah and Fear Factory - kind of (for example track Need To Be A Human). Just do not get it wrong, everybody has music inspirations and that`s always OK. I even think that Grin has already their original vision for writing interesting songs. They construct this style by giving it a solid instrumental ideas that they explore on and on in music by providing to it some more or less hostile/invasive music experimentation that turned up to be really good for Gnosis.
Tracklist:
1 Prologue
2 Universal Antidote
3 Eyes Of The Creators
4 Gnosis
5 Rust On My Fingers
6 Burnt By Life
7 Need To Be A Human
8 Simon Magus
9 Turn Of My Brain
10 Mental Hole
11 Even For A Moment
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 29.02.2019
Added: 29.02.2019
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Label/Shop Online: www.deformeathing.com
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BandCamp: www.deformeathing.bandcamp.com
